Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

60 reviews

_kimb's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

chloenk_1011's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

rachtabitha's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, and Addiction

alaynatabor's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

oktuber's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The pacing at the beginning of the book was pretty slow. It seemed as though the author was trying to avoid writing just an origin story and instead telling that origin through flashbacks. But this led to every single thing that would have been mysterious, such as whether they will actually become ExtraOrdinaries or what certain character’s powers are, being easily spotted chapters before the big “reveal.” The ending was great, going from about the middle of the book onward, but the beginning was underwhelming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Stalking, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

booksandtea997's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Drug abuse, Blood, and Alcoholism

Minor: Mental illness

fpwoper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am so impressed by this book, whoa. I honestly can't wait to delve into the second book (but first... other books to read. Then the second on in this series. I'm going to need to show some restraint here).
Look. Morally grey characters (if they aren't actually all evil, because that's still almost up for debate, because both of them are a little conflicting in their morality), plus special powers... well, you've got me hooked. The fact that we slowly get more information about people's powers, how the ExtraOrdinaries work, but also how this feud between Eli and Victor started... it's just so good. Perfectly balanced and I felt like every character had an actual good motivation for what they were doing instead of just being good or bad - hence the morally grey. Eli is clearly driven by his own motivations, ones that might look eerily familiar to some people, which makes it even more believable. The fact that Eli and Victor's powers both look a little overpowered isn't too much of a detractor, either, because it just makes their feud a) longer; b) more believable; and c) way more enjoyable.
I just love this book, and I cannot wait to pick up the second book.

(The short story Warm Up, by the way, was very short and very much to the point!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Suicide/Drug abuse/Overdosing explanation:

In order to become an EO, one has to die but survive. Both Eli and Victor commit suicide to become EO, and for Victor, it takes two tries, one of which includes overdosing on drugs and alcohol

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

mariekev's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse and Violence

junefish's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Torture

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse